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... close of 1749. If Bentley's emendations had called up a storm of protest , Lauder's writings roused a tempest . Inquiries , protests , denials , reviews , lampoons , and prophecies , in both prose and verse , were poured upon the bloody ...
... close of 1749. If Bentley's emendations had called up a storm of protest , Lauder's writings roused a tempest . Inquiries , protests , denials , reviews , lampoons , and prophecies , in both prose and verse , were poured upon the bloody ...
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... close of the seventeenth century indicate that unrimed poetry was at that time enjoying some vogue as a novelty , ' and so late as 1764 Goldsmith wrote in the dedication to The Traveller that his poem had " neither abuse , party , nor ...
... close of the seventeenth century indicate that unrimed poetry was at that time enjoying some vogue as a novelty , ' and so late as 1764 Goldsmith wrote in the dedication to The Traveller that his poem had " neither abuse , party , nor ...
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... close of the century William Belsham spoke of the couplet as " un- able ... to stand the comparison with blank verse , " which " of all the different kinds of verse known in English poetry . . . is un- doubtedly entitled to be first ...
... close of the century William Belsham spoke of the couplet as " un- able ... to stand the comparison with blank verse , " which " of all the different kinds of verse known in English poetry . . . is un- doubtedly entitled to be first ...
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... close of the line . Inversion of accent ( the substitution of a trochaic for an iambic foot ) was allowed unwillingly and only to a limited extent , even in blank verse . Glover is said to have prided himself on having none at all ...
... close of the line . Inversion of accent ( the substitution of a trochaic for an iambic foot ) was allowed unwillingly and only to a limited extent , even in blank verse . Glover is said to have prided himself on having none at all ...
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... close and prejudice and convention- ality reign . Isaac Watts , who on the same page in which he rejoiced in deliverance from the bondage of rime proceeded to forge new fet- ters , is an illustration of these half - liberated minds ...
... close and prejudice and convention- ality reign . Isaac Watts , who on the same page in which he rejoiced in deliverance from the bondage of rime proceeded to forge new fet- ters , is an illustration of these half - liberated minds ...
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